Bharat Sundaresan

Vibe of Suryavanshi, the 15 year old Jared, who may have scored 200 runs and hit 18 sixes in his first four innings is an obvious storyline, but even he's in his second year and it feels like, and his success funnily enough has taken away that other very enduring narrative of the IPL of every time a young, youngster does something, the IPL people go, Oh, when will he play for India?

But,

I guess the whole concept of a youngster has changed.

If you're 18 or 19 and you make runs, they're going, yeah, but look what the 15-year-old is doing.

It's been a bit of a challenging year in that sense.

We are into the fifth week now of the IPL where it doesn't have that one basic storyline or narrative that you can just latch on to.

So you are kind of just focusing more on the quality of the games.

Last night, Mumbai won a game.

Tilak Verma made a great 100.

I saw Jasprit Bumrah took his first wicket of the IPL season.

So there are things happening in that fashion.

But yeah, to have that deep connect is a challenge.

And I'm hearing it from other Australians as well, Jared, as I travel around.

People are going...

yeah, there are some good matches, but tell me why I should follow the IPL.

And for now, I don't have a reason for it.

Yes, and I think he's done some other media as well with Crick Buzz, who, as you know, Jared, I do some writing work for.

And in that, he has spoken about

understanding his body better.

And what you said, I mean, just rushing at times, even if it's little things like, oh, you could start running from so and so date, you want to get to it three or four days earlier.